The Resolute Woman

Category: aging

  • Remember Aunt Ola?

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    Do you remember my husband Jerry’s Aunt Ola? Last year, I wrote about her when she turned 104. Now, she’s 105! When we visited Ola at her retirement community recently, we talked nonstop for two hours. Ola asked my daughter Mary Elizabeth about her graduate school classes, and she wanted to know about our son…

  • Another year, another birthday

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    My birthday is approaching. “I can’t believe I’m this old,” I told my husband the other day. However, every time I start to feel a bit depressed about the inevitable, I remember my wise friend Jane, who was my roommate the summer I worked in Boston. It seems amusing now, but back then I was…

  • Joy vs. happiness

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    In his book Aging Well, Dr. George Vaillant tells about a visit with George Emerson. “I could only sit back and marvel at this 76-year-old man,” Dr. Valliant writes. “Despite severe asthma, devastating leukemia and hands so arthritic that he could no longer write, Emerson had been out sailing competitively for a state trophy he…

  • The joy of aging

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    I just finished reading a fascinating book by Dr. George Vaillant, director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development. It’s titled Aging Well—Surprising Guideposts to a Happier Life from the Landmark Harvard Study of Adult Development. Of course, even though I now have two children who are college graduates and I was well past my…